Each year the OAS Secretary General publishes a proposed Program-Budget for the coming calendar year. The OAS General Assembly meets in a Special Session to approve the Program-Budget. Find these documents from 1998-2013 here.
Each year in April, the OAS Board of External Auditors publishes a report covering the previous calendar year’s financial results. Reports covering 1996-2016 may be found here.
Approximately six weeks after the end of each semester, the OAS publishes a Semiannual Management and Performance Report, which since 2013 includes reporting on programmatic results. The full texts may be found here.
Here you will find data on the Human Resources of the OAS, including its organizational structure, each organizational unit’s staffing, vacant posts, and performance contracts.
The OAS executes a variety of projects funded by donors. Evaluation reports are commissioned by donors. Reports of these evaluations may be found here.
The Inspector General provides the Secretary General with reports on the audits, investigations, and inspections conducted. These reports are made available to the Permanent Council. More information may be found here.
The OAS has discussed for several years the real estate issue, the funding required for maintenance and repairs, as well as the deferred maintenance of its historic buildings. The General Secretariat has provided a series of options for funding it. The most recent document, reflecting the current status of the Strategy, is CP/CAAP-3211/13 rev. 4.
Here you will find information related to the GS/OAS Procurement Operations, including a list of procurement notices for formal bids, links to the performance contract and travel control measure reports, the applicable procurement rules and regulations, and the training and qualifications of its staff.
The OAS Treasurer certifies the financial statements of all funds managed or administered by the GS/OAS. Here you will find the latest general purpose financial reports for the main OAS funds, as well as OAS Quarterly Financial Reports (QFRs).
Every year the GS/OAS publishes the annual operating plans for all areas of the Organization, used to aid in the formulation of the annual budget and as a way to provide follow-up on institutional mandates.
Here you will find information related to the OAS Strategic Plan 2016-2020, including its design, preparation and approval.
OAS Strengthens Links with International Organizations
July 29, 2005
Seeking to strengthen its international and hemispheric relations, the Organization of American States (OAS) this week participated in the United Nations sponsored 6th high level meeting with regional and other intergovernmental organizations, which discussed partnership for a more secure world.
Secretary General José Miguel Insulza and Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin represented the OAS at this New York gathering, held Monday and Tuesday at UN headquarters and chaired by Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
At the conclusion, the participants issued a statement on a “Partnership among Civilizations,” in which they agreed to proceed towards such a partnership with all stakeholders—government, intergovernmental organizations and civil society, as a means of counteracting exclusion.
They also agreed to strengthen the high-level meeting and to establish a standing committee of 10 organizations. The OAS has offered to be one, and both Insulza and Ramdin stressed that the OAS’ role is very much aligned with the standing committee’s mission.
On the Haiti question, Insulza told the meeting that while elections are critically important, as are the preparations for elections, sustained stability will call for high-level presence and attention by the international community in Haiti, after the installation of a new government next year.
Prior to the high-level meeting, Assistant Secretary General Ramdin participated in a “Consultation on Options and Techniques for Quiet Diplomacy,” hosted Sunday by Mr. Max van Stoel, Minister of State of the Netherlands, with the support of the Netherlands government.
That forum concluded that, with intra-state conflicts on the rise, international organizations cannot ignore inter-state conflicts such as those involving border- and territorial issues. The meeting also urged a more prominent role by regional organizations in that regard, and stressed the need for strengthened cooperation between regional organizations.
The consultation participants stressed that an organization’s secretary general needs to be much more proactive in conflict resolution—and in quiet diplomacy. They also focused on the need for more preventive diplomacy; an early warning mechanism to alert regional organizations on possible conflicts; the increased use of third party involvement—OAS and other organizations; and impartiality and neutrality by mediators.
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